Careers
The following exciting opportunities have arisen to join our team.
5 yrs + PQE
Consultant Solicitor
We are looking for an experienced self-employed consultant with a minimum of 5 years PQE for our boutique law firm that specialises in Debt recovery, landlord & tenant and dispute resolution.
Summary
Qualification and requirements
– Min 5 years + PQE.
– Experience in Debt recovery, landlord & tenant and dispute resolution.
– Be able to work autonomously and to manage own caseload.
– Self-motivated.
– Friendly, yet professional. Easy to get on with.
– Ambitious, proactive and strives for excellence in all they do.
– Competitive fee-share.
– Own following, advantageous. Cross-referral opportunities.
– Work-life balance.
– Office support.
– Document management system.
– Marketing initiatives and support to develop.
– Remote meetings.
– Fully remote.
2 yrs PQE – Assistant Solicitor
You will be a friendly, hard-working, trustworthy, punctual, reliable, self-starter, well-organised, tech-savvy, and ambitious assistant solicitor to assist our firm’s Principal Solicitor/Managing Director and to run cases independently. The candidate should be self-sufficient, able to type and offer general administrative support as and when required.
The caseload will include debt recovery, landlord & tenant, and general dispute resolution.
Required skills, a minimum of 2 years PQE practising solicitor in England and Wales.
– At least 2 years’ experience of acting for and defending clients in debt recovery, landlord & tenant, and dispute resolution cases.
– Ability to work collaboratively, keeping in contact as part of the team but also self-efficient and able to manage own caseload/work independently.
– Demonstrate an ability to always ensure sufficient money on account so that bills are paid, that you do not work “on credit” and that debt does not accrue.
– Good client care.
– Able to actively run a caseload of debt recovery, landlord & tenant, and dispute resolution cases.
– Assisting counsel at court hearings and trials when required.
– Assisting clients at mediations, round table meetings and at court when required.
– Independently time recording, ensuring that client is always kept up to date in relation to costs, ensuring that there is always sufficient money on account and not working in deficit.
– Works well under pressure.
– Works well as part of a team and independently.
– Engaging in and initiating activity to win new business for the firm.
Legal Assistant
(Fixed term contract/Part-time roll and a full-time role)
– Diary & post management (including scanning incoming post, uploading to our case management system & taking post to the Post Office, handling petty cash)
– Preparing pdf & hardcopy bundles and assisting to prepare for hearings/trials.
– Legal research, gathering evidence, checking accuracy, checking enclosures and assisting to progress cases.
– Drafting legal documents, e.g., s21/s8 notices, directions/PTR questionnaires, and cost schedules, and assisting in creating precedent workflows.
– Typing dictations and collating relevant enclosures.
– Assisting counsel at court hearings and trials by taking notes.
– File opening, client verification & AML/POCA checks/searches.
– Readying materials for trial proceedings including documents, evidence and verifying factual information.
– Communicating with clients and fee earners with simple requests. Communicating with the court and opponents as instructed.
– Time recording.
– Working to strict deadlines.
– Monitoring and ordering stationery.
If you would like to apply for the above positions, please email your cover letter and CV to info@johnsonmay.com.
We receive several applications and may not be able to respond to everyone. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of your application, please assume that your application has not been successful.